And when the Republicans are done huffing and puffing, they'll be downright exhausted.
Posted on 12/21/2022 7:43:48 AM PST by Red Badger
Joe Biden’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that over a million jobs were created in the second quarter, a heartening statistic that no doubt helped the Democrats in November. But now, the Philadelphia Federal Reserve says that those million jobs were almost entirely fictitious:
The Biden administration vastly overstated its estimate that employers created more than 1 million jobs in the second quarter of this year, claiming historic job growth when in fact hiring had stalled, according to a new estimate.
Job growth was “essentially flat” in the second quarter with only 10,500 jobs added, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said.
Could the Bureau of Labor Statistics be a politicized agency, faking numbers to help the Democratic Party? Twenty years ago I wouldn’t have believed it, but given what we know about the FBI and the CIA, it is easy to believe that the BLS, which I suspect is staffed overwhelmingly by Democrats, may be corruptible. Republicans are not amused by today’s news:
Republicans are accusing the administration of lying about the employment data in an election year and are demanding answers. *** Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida called the development “outrageous.”
“Wrong by a million jobs,” Mr. Scott tweeted Friday. “@JoeBiden’s admin has been lying to the American people about our economy to prop up his failed agenda & I won’t stand for it. I’m requesting an immediate meeting with the head of @BLS_gov. WE NEED ANSWERS NOW!”
President Biden had boasted about the second-quarter job numbers in the heat of the midterm election campaign, using the BLS report as proof that the nation wasn’t headed for a recession.
“In the second quarter of this year, we created more jobs than in any quarter under any of my predecessors in the nearly 40 years before the pandemic,” Mr. Biden said on July 8.
One of the problems with perverting the federal bureaucracy, as the Democrats have done, is that pretty much everyone loses faith in the integrity of government. At this point, there is no reason to assume that government numbers are accurate and unfudged. We have been lied to, too many times.
It is sad, but that is where we find ourselves. Trust has been destroyed.
Surely if PDJT had done this he would have been impeached again.
It used to be a Felony to intentionally Falsify Official Government records and documents
Government corruption will sink America.
Off by two orders of magnitude.
For naked political partisanship. This is awful stuff.
So he was off by only 989,500 jobs, what’s the big deal?/s
It still is if you are just a Peon filing a federal tax return. Try “Sorry, I made a mistake” with the IRS and see what happens.
What is perhaps not so funny, id the Federal Reserve trusted these bogus numbers as being real as part of their setting rate policy. If all the instrumentation is a lie, then we’re driving a ship thru a fog with no idea where the shoals are.
rounding error .... /s
And when the Republicans are done huffing and puffing, they'll be downright exhausted.
Lol. When DOESN’T the Biden regime lie?
“overstated its estimate”
“according to a new estimate.”
So one estimate is different than another estimate.
BLS job interviewer: whats 2 plus 2?
BLS job applicant: what do you want it to be?
BLS job interviewer: YOU’RE HIRED!
BLS: “Math is hard!”
They don’t know how to count job numbers. They don’t know how to count ballots. Who’s in charge of the Treasury and $pending?
Democrats LIE ITS WHAT THEY DO.
Lie now, walk back later.
“Whatever it takes”
Biden is earning his place on this list.
Obama did the same thing. BLS cooked the books to make Obama look good. BLS and GDP stats were constantly being down graded. No economic stat out of the Biden admin is credible.
All of government, including the BLS, is the deep state. They run things. They get their way for their benefit and care not for working Americans. We are merely surfs that they forcibly confiscate our earnings for their benefit. Any man who works for government is the problem. They should be ashamed. They are incapable of making it in the real world. Most cannot even make it in government. They belong to unions so they can never be fired for not doing their jobs. Proof: they remain employed, government constantly grows, but everything in America get worse, year after year. If you work for government, then you lived a failed life. You are pathetic.
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